transit
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The waterway is a crucial route for global energy transit.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
You can watch your future grocery bill in transit: The stage of the producer-price index furthest from your cart rose 3.2% in May, the biggest jump since 2009.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
WSJ: A ship recently paid a record $5.3 million to transit the canal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
In the next breath, he mentions his Saturn return, the astrological transit that often triggers a reevaluation of one’s pursuits and place in the cosmic octagon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
I'll have to wait for another Phobos transit to get my longitude, and I'll need to wait for nightfall to sight Deneb for my latitude.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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Now that we are starting to reduce the number of transits to nine per day, that auction slot becomes more desirable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
In 2023, El Nino forced a reduction in daily transits from 38 to 22 due to the dramatic reduction in reservoir levels.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
That follows zero such transits in 2025 and is on pace to exceed the 15 recorded in 2024.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
In 2023 and 2024, El Nino forced a reduction in daily transits to 22 and the maximum draft to 13.41 meters.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
I watched two Phobos transits yesterday and sighted Deneb last night.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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Ship trackers say roughly a third of the vessels that have transited the strait during August have used the Iranian-administered route along the northern reaches of the waterway.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
And despite the overall lull in the fighting, Iran fired drones at oil tankers from the United Arab Emirates, another U.S. ally, as they transited the Strait of Hormuz this month.
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
Other shipping companies have transited the Arctic passage before, with Denmark's Maersk the first to do so in 2018.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
In peacetime, about a fifth of the world’s supply of crude and crude products transited through Hormuz.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
We hear of him but once again until he, the Sun-God, or Savior, is thirty years old, or has transited thirty degrees of space.
From The Light of Egypt; or, the science of the soul and the stars — Volume 2 by Thomas H. Burgoyne
North Korea didn’t provide footage of the warship transiting at sea, but claimed it can fire a nuclear-tipped weapon from the roughly 5,000-ton vessel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
The Saudi national shipping company, Bahri, confirmed on Wednesday that its vessel Sidr was "involved in a security incident while transiting the Strait of Hormuz".
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Per the report, the Saudi Arabian-flagged Sidr, which is a large crude carrier operated by the country’s national shipping company, Bahri, was struck as it was transiting east of Khasab, Oman.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
Ships transiting the Panama Canal book their passage well in advance, and ships without bookings wait an average of five days to get through, but there is an auction where last-minute transits can be purchased.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
With this realization, priorities have been assigned to all critical circuits transiting the key facilities, based on established criteria of criticality of service continuity.
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